Friday, April 7, 2017

First It’s His Hair, Now It’s His Number?

Come on people… it’s time to get a grip here. Here’s a quick
hit and a bit of a rant because the talk regarding Clint Frazier, one of the
Yankees top prospects in their farm system, has been borderline ridiculous.
First it was his hair, which I believe was within the Yankees team policy
although I am not 100% sure because this wasn’t as big of an issue to me as it
was to others apparently, and now it is supposedly because of the fact that he
asked to wear the legendary Mickey Mantle’s #7 jersey? Come on now people… if
you’re going to just flat out make stuff up because your journalist and writing
skills are that bad and you need something to write about at least make it
conceivable and believable… please? And thank you.

Now before everyone starts jumping down my throat let me
start by saying that I am not talking about WFAN’s Suzyn Waldman. Waldman is
not a journalist, she is the Yankees radio broadcaster, and she simply
reiterated what he had heard supposedly. Now either she completely made this up
and I am totally off base his by sticking up for her or she really heard it
from a poor old soul that already had his article typed up and was waiting for
her to go on with Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts before he hit submit on his
dashboard. Either way it’s sad and it’s the entire reason I got into this whole
blogging and news reporting thing, to be different. To go against the grain. I
would ask for the #7 jersey because that’s just how I am but Frazier didn’t.

Why would he? Was he somehow unaware that the number was
retired? Unlikely. Some may not know that the Yankees retired #8 jersey twice
and they may not know who it belongs to but even the most casual of baseball
fans knows who Mickey freaking Mantle is. Come on now. You guys are better than
that and the season has started so you should have plenty of recycled crap to
talk about that will garner you more views than you deserve so how about you
just stick to that and leave Frazier alone for once.

2 comments:

If he crushes it in AAA over the next 3 months, it'll be a non issue. Having a dynamic personality spooks some people. Bird, torres, judge, all seem very reserved. Play well, hit well, and for Christ sake stop running into corner outfielders and the chatter will go away.